MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
You Can't Read This Book (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Tue, 13 May 2025
This is a special bonus episode of "You Can't"One night in 2020, a woman named Beth Van Oss paced back and forth in a small room in the house she shared with her boyfriend, Mike, in rural Colorado. She dialed Mike’s phone number again, and put her phone to her ear. But just like the last time she’d called – he didn’t answer. Now, Beth was afraid. He had left that morning, headed for the woods, promising her that when he came back – they would finally have everything they had ever dreamed of. And he had taken something with him. Something that he had become obsessed with. Something that Beth had begged him to forget about, and throw away. But he had refused. And now, he was gone. Beth dialed the phone again, but this time, she called the police. For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hey, Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. One night in 2020, a woman named Beth Van Os paced back and forth in a small room in the house she shared with her boyfriend, Mike, in rural Colorado.
She dialed Mike's phone number again and put her phone to her ear, but just like the last time she'd called, he didn't pick up. And so now, Beth was afraid. Mike had left that morning, headed for the woods, promising her that when he came back, they would finally have everything they had ever dreamed of.
He had also taken something with him, something he had become obsessed with, something that Beth had begged him to forget about and throw away, but he had refused. And now, he was simply gone. Beth dialed the phone again, but this time, she called the police.
But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week. Once on Monday and once on Thursday. As well as this very special episode of a new format I'm calling You Can't, which we upload periodically.
If you're a fan of my YouTube channel, you know that we have a very popular series called Places You Can't Go and People Who Went There Anyways. And so we decided to tell some stories that are similar to those here on this podcast, something that's a new concept. Now, keep in mind, this is in addition to the regular upload schedule. This is like a special extra upload.
And we are going to do this periodically just to give you more Mr. Ballin stories that we know you all love. So, if that's of interest to you, on the next day the Follow Button barbecues their famous steak that they and their family adore, be sure to, beforehand, secretly steal all their steak knives and replace them with plastic cutlery. Okay, let's get into today's story.
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